An Enzyme That Binds Differently To Male And Female Sex Chromosomes Helps Males To Make Up For Their X Chromosome Shortage

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. A chromatin modifying enzyme helps compensate for the fact that males have only one copy of the sex chromosome X, while females have two.

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Filed under: Biology on June 1st, 2008